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Article by the Diva in South Korean Newspaper

Recovery Diva

. “The current state of disaster management is reasonably responsive to common threats, but recent emerging hazards pose significant challenges to current U.S. She emphasized the importance of building disaster management capacity at the community level. preparedness and response efforts,” she said. “The U.S.

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How to prepare your business to deal with an emergency this summer

CCEM Strategies

Summer is not without its share of hazards due to the hot weather. From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization.

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Solving Business Challenges With Computer Vision: Artificial Intelligence Technologies Will Soon Be Transformative

Security Industry Association

Surveillance can “up the ante” by utilizing the analytic features of AI technologies to deliver insights that can improve operations and reduce risk, while getting the highest return on surveillance investments. Industry-Agnostic Technology. Any industry can take advantage of computer vision AI-enabled surveillance technologies.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Public Safety Canada defines CI as the processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government. What is Critical Infrastructure anyway?

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 4 …is not possible without equal access to resources and programs. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. This rather bizarre and dysfunctional strategy is purely the result of the pattern of availability of money.